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Full Title: This represents the Charecke Nation by Col. Herberts map & my own observations with the path to Charles Town, its course & (distance measured by my watch) the names of [the] branches, rivers & creeks, as given them by [the] traders ...

"Certified by me, George Hunter, May 21, 1730."
Re-drawn and printed facsimile of 1730 manuscript map in the Faden Map Collection at the Library of Congress (no. 6).
The original manuscript was compiled by George Hunter, a surveyor accompanying Sir Alexander Cuming's 1730 expedition, and includes notes made by South Carolina Governor James Glen around 1757; see accompanying commentary by A.S. Salley.
Covers the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River, showing primarily the Congaree Indian Trading Path and Indian villages along the Santee River and Savannah River valleys, westward to the Tellico Plains region of the Overhill Cherokee in eastern Tennessee.
Incorrectly shows longitude as "58 wt. from London" through "66".
Rough sketch map; scale varies widely.
Relief shown pictorially.
Includes descriptive text and table of distances from Charleston, S.C.
Issued folded in cover with commentary (5 p. ; 24 cm.)

Contained In:

Detached from: Salley, A.S. George Hunter's map of the Cherokee country and the path thereto in 1730 (Columbia, S.C. : Printed for the [State Historical] Commission by the State Company, 1917), opposite title page (Bulletins of the Historical Commission of South Carolina ; no. 4).

Original Collection:

Edward E. Ayer Collection (Newberry Library)

Referenced In:

Cumming, William P. The Southeast in early maps (3rd ed., 1998), p. 22, 55, and 228, map no. 207, Hale, Edward Everett. Catalogue of a curious and valuable collection of original maps and plans of military positions held in the old French and Revolutionary Wars (1862), p. [3], no. 6

Citation

Hunter, George, "This Represents the Charecke Nation by Col. Herberts Map & My Own Observations With the Path to Charles Town, its Course & (Distance Measured by My Watch) the Names of [the] Branches, Rivers & Creeks, as Given Them by [the] Traders Along that Nation ... May 21, 1730", in George Hunter’s Map of the Cherokee Country and the Path Thereto in 1730 [Columbia, S.C. : Printed for the Historical Commission of South Carolina by the State Company, 1917.] Ayer map4F G3860 1730 .H8 1917